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Mary Rose is a secondary English teacher in the Chicago Public Schools; labor activist and organizer; and doctoral student in Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on critical literacy pedagogy, teacher beliefs

Jenna Nemec-Loise is an American school librarian and emerging library and information science scholar. Her dissertation, “Delving Differently: A Human Development Approach to School Library Impact Study,” is a qualitative content analysis of school library impact studies in the United

I completed Ph.D study in History at Loyola University Chicago in 2007, producing the dissertation “‘Auld Sod’ and New Turf: Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago. My current research interests involve interdisciplinary Ethnomusicology and

Professor Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania; Kirkpatrick Professor Emerita of English and GWS at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; former Guggenheim fellow; elected member of board of trustees, International James Joyce Foundation; Carol and Gordon Segal Distinguished Visiting Professor

Natasha Casey is associate professor of communications at Blackburn College (Illinois) where she teaches media and information literacy, communication theory and other courses in the English and Communications department. She holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from McGill University. Her

Rachel Nozicka is a PhD student at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where she studies 18th-century British and Irish literature with a focus on poetry and form. She previously received her Master’s degree in Literature from Creighton University, where she

JiHyea is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.